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Article: The centrality of the exceptional in literary study.(Responses)
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I am confused about Joseph Carroll's "we." Citing his own earlier work, Carroll notes that he once admitted that "we do not yet have a full and adequate conception of human nature." This we may be no more than a variation of "one"--anyone. But then I read that, time having passed, Carroll himself is now able to "lay out a model of human nature that incorporates the features on which most practitioners in the field would agree." He does this in 1600 words. Does he consider himself one of the community of "practitioners?" Or are they the community of scientists and social scientists who are trained in those fields? If the second, and that seems more likely, by what ...
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